{"id":95767,"date":"2021-06-26T18:49:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95767"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:00:21","slug":"play-acting-messiahs-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/play-acting-messiahs-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Acting Messiah&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It&#8217;s difficult to be the Messiah,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">play-acting his death on a torture stake.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Times like this teach us<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">what death means,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">remind us how a man, sinless,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">was beating from neighbouring streets<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">down to Golgotha.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A cup of grief is always as heavy as grief.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It was written that he wanted the cup<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">to be him, the Passover lamb.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to be the Messiah, play-acting his death on a torture stake. Times like this teach us what death means, remind us how a man, sinless, was beating from neighbouring streets down to Golgotha. A cup of grief is always as heavy as grief&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95888,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95767\/revisions\/95888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}